Talking to walls…

Canada’s 150th anniversary logo, my suggestion.

Recently, CBC.ca published an article showcasing and exploring five logos currently in development by the Federal Government for the country’s 150th anniversary, via a report prepared for the Department of Canadian Heritage.

Here is my suggestion :

Credits to Henry Tyminski who designed the original logo that I have modified.

I am quite annoyed that they dare to use the 1608 (foundation of Québec city). Indeed, this colony of New France was called Canada, but THAT Canada was an enemy of the British Empire, unlike the future dominion. This tendency to see historical continuity between New France’s Canada and British Dominion of Canada/Canadian Federation is nothing but historical revisionnism to me. Besides, I doubt anglos from let’s say Regina have any historical heritage with New France besides that our explorers went there before theirs. They should have taken 1867 like they usually do ; at leasy, it’s more honest about history.

They use Québec’s own history to make Canada’s history more ancient, therefore more « legitimate » as a State, meaning by that the more a given state dates, the more it is hard-written in today’s world. I’ve even seen an English tell an Anglo-Canadian that « before we came, you talked French », so this Englisman saw a connexion between the original Canada and the Federation…